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RHC/RC. Regional Collections

 Record Group Term
Identifier: RHC/RC
The Regional Collections include original manuscripts and records generated by private individuals, institutions, and organizations from throughout the eighteen northern Illinois counties. The collections span the period from 1800 to the present and focus on several major themes in the region's history: agriculture, politics, ethnic heritage, commerce and industry, the role of women, and urban expansion. To provide documentation in these areas of interest the Center actively collects the historical records of farmers and their organizations, businesses and retail stores, state and local politicians, churches, cemeteries, civic agencies, individuals, women's organizations, and labor unions. In addition, the Center holds vertical file manuscripts, county and local histories, atlases and plat books, city directories, maps, broadsides, posters, photographs, oral histories, genealogical journals, and core reference printed materials on the history of northern Illinois that complement the manuscript collections.

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

DeKalb Public Hospital Records

 Collection — Volume 1
Identifier: RHC-RC-224
Scope and Contents

The records for the DeKalb Public Hospital include information pertaining to the building of the new hospital, the Kishwaukee Community Hospital, and the selling of the old property, the DeKalb Public Hospital. The records include meeting minutes, constitutions, correspondence, reports, and legal documents.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1911-2007; Other: Date acquired: 03/16/1995

Jacob Haish Memorial Hospital Corporation Records (DeKalb)

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-286
Scope and Contents

The records of the Jacob Haish Memorial Hospital Corporation include information pertaining to Jacob Haish’s will, the corporation’s funding of the building of a wing in the DeKalb Public Hospital and the building of newly opened (2007) Kishwaukee Community Hospital’s Emergency Room. The records include meeting minutes, special meeting minutes, annual meeting minutes, legal documents, correspondences, reports, and blueprints.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1944-2007; Other: Date acquired: 10/03/2007

Kishwaukee Community Hospital Records

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-327
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of scrapbooks relating to the Kishwaukee Community Hospital from 1924 to 1975. The scrapbooks contain newspaper articles that detail the activities of both the DeKalb Public Hospital and the Sycamore Public Hospital, as well as their auxiliary groups. An additional box includes reports, meeting minutes, and memos documenting the creation of the hospital and its activities.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1924-1975; Other: Date acquired: 02/25/2009